Anders Harald Wejryd is a Swedish

Sweden

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 Lutheran clergyman. Having been Bishop of Växjö since 1995, he was elected Archbishop of Uppsala

Archbishop of Uppsala

The Archbishop of Uppsala has been the primate in Sweden in an unbroken succession since 1164, first during the Catholic era, and from the 1530s and onward under the Lutheran church.- Historical overview :...

 and primate of the Church of Sweden

Church of Sweden

The Church of Sweden is the largest Christian church in Sweden. The church professes the Lutheran faith and is a member of the Porvoo Communion. With 6,589,769 baptized members, it is the largest Lutheran church in the world, although combined, there are more Lutherans in the member churches of...

 in March 2006 and took office in September of the same year.

Wejryd studied at Uppsala University

Uppsala University

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, where he received his Bachelor of Divinity

Bachelor of Divinity

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 degree in 1972. In the same year, he was ordained priest in Västerås

Västerås

Västerås is a city in central Sweden, located on the shore of Lake Mälaren in the province Västmanland, some 100 km west of Stockholm...

. He has served as priest in Västerås, Munktorp

Munktorp

Munktorp is a locality situated in Köping Municipality, Västmanland County, Sweden with 485 inhabitants in 2005.Munktorp is the site of the historic Munktorp Church . The church is associated with St. David of Munktorp , an Anglo-Saxon monk of the 11th century. The oldest parts of the church date...

 and Arboga

Arboga

Arboga is a locality and the seat of Arboga Municipality in Västmanland County, Sweden with 10,369 inhabitants in 2005.-Overview:The city of Arboga is known to have existed as a town since the 13th century but the area has been inhabited since around 900 AD...

, and was vicar

Vicar

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 of the parish Munktorp-Odensvi from 1978 to 1985, and vicar of Arboga parish and rural dean

Rural Dean

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 of the deanery Köping-Arboga from 1985 to 1987. In the 1980s, he continued part time doctoral studies, doing research on Nathan Söderblom

Nathan Söderblom

Lars Olof Jonathan Söderblom was a Swedish clergyman, Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden, and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize...

's missionary work until 1987, when his new job left him no time to continue. From 1987 to 1995 he was director of Ersta diakonisällskap (a church-connected foundation in Stockholm

Stockholm

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 running a small hospital, social care activities and a nursing college), before becoming Bishop of Växjö in 1995, and Archbishop of Uppsala in 2006.

Election to Archbishop

Wejryd was the firstb Archbishop to be elected after the separation of the Church of Sweden from the state on January 1, 2000. This meant that the Government of Sweden

Government of Sweden

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 had no role in his appointment. In the preliminary election on February 8, 2006, he received 33% of the votes among 14 candidates (of which only eight received any votes at all). In the first round of voting on March 15, six candidates remained, and Wejryd received a plurality of votes, 44.6%, but not an absolute majority, with Ragnar Persenius as runner-up at 30.8%. A second round of voting between Wejryd and Persenius was arranged on March 30, where Wejryd received 176 votes (58.1%) against 127 for Persenius.

Activities as Archbishop

Wejryd took up his office on September 2, 2006. He met with Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI

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 in March 2007. In June 2010, he officiated

Officiant

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 at the wedding of Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling

Wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling

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